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The superhero reader /
This collection brings together essays and book excerpts by major writers on comics and popular culture. While superhero comics are a distinct and sometimes disdained branch of comics creation, they are integral to the development of the North American comic book and the history of the medium. In th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
[2013]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Historical Considerations. Comics Predecessors / Peter Coogan ; Men Of Tomorrow / Gerard Jones ; Gladiator / Philip Wylie ; The Great Comic Book Heroes / Jules Feiffer ; The Comics and the Super State / Walter Ong ; The Superman Conceit / Fredric Wertham ; The Great Women Superheroes / Trina Robbins ; Fandom and Authorship / Will Brooker
- Theory and Genre. Literary Formulas / John G. Cawelti ; Crowds of Superheroes / Robert Jewett and John Shelton Lawrence ; The Epic Hero and Pop Culture / Roger B. Rollin ; Masked Heroes / Richard Reynolds ; The Revisionary Superhero Narrative / Geoff Klock ; Jack Kirby and the Marvel Aesthetic / Charles Hatfield ; Navigating Infinite Earths / Karin Kukkonen ; A Song of the Urban Superhero / Scott Bukatman
- Culture and Identity. Wonder Woman / Gloria Steinem ; Invisible Girl / Lillian Robinson ; Love Will Bring You to Your Gift / Jennifer Stuller ; Batman, Deviance and Camp / Andy Medhurst ; Color Them Black / Adilifu Nama ; Comic Book Masculinity / Jeffrey Brown ; The Punisher as Revisionist Superhero Western / Lorrie Palmer ; Death Defying-Heroes / Henry Jenkins.